Mitchell's Place Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201056421
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2059570294
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Autism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,977,378
- Expenses
- $5,469,626
- Assets
- $2,329,385
- Liabilities
- $1,797,123
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARA NALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SARA NALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $99,478 total reported compensation
- TILISA DILWORTH (CONTROLLER): $88,058 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide comprehensive, research-based services for children and families affected by autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. We strive to unlock the potential of individuals affected by autism spectrum disorder by providing quality diagnostic, educational and therapeutic services. Mitchell's place is an innovative, evidence-based center that is committed to providing a nurturing environment aimed at improving the quality of life for our clients and families.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our psychology department offers comprehensive evaluations for autism, and assessments for other neurodevelopmental disabilities and psychological concerns. Clients can also receive individual and family therapy, school testing, school consulting, and feeding therapy. We evaluate from 18 months through adulthood. Our advocacy/consulting program offers individual and school consulting as well as advocacy training for parents. We work with schools by providing professional development, set up classrooms to have better success behaviorally and work with individual students who need a little extra support. Our advocacy program is a 9-10-month program using a curriculum to help parents understand special education and all the processes involved, including how to navigate the public school system so that their child receives all that he/she is entitled to because of their disability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.